Turnpikes Def Quotes

#1. It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes.
"And does the accent work on you?

Nichole Chase

#2. I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

Mike Gordon

#3. The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

Murray Kempton

#4. I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#5. If you want to govern the people,
You must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead people,
You must learn how to follow them.

Lao-Tzu

#6. I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mark Leyner

#7. She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

Kate Morton

#8. Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

Thomas Merton